Wanderlust to Houselust

Why in the world did I swap globetrotting for roots and rural renovation? Why indeed?!?! These posts — sometimes directly and other times somewhat obliquely — reveal my evolution from global nomad (with insatiable wanderlust) to hyper local nester (with “houselust” bordering on OCD), from Paris and Rome and Manhattan to Essex-on-Lake-Champlain.